Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: warning: process 'update' used the obsolete bdflush... | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Date | 01 Jun 2003 21:31:40 +0200 |
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On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 11:34, Stewart Smith wrote: > On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 07:04 PM, Paul Rolland wrote: > > When switching from 2.4.20 to 2.5.x (x being recent), I have this > > message... > > > > What does this mean ? > > 1 - I have no process named update running, > > 2 - I can't find anything name update in /etc/rc.d/* recursively. > > from fs/buffer.c: > /* > * There are no bdflush tunables left. But distributions are > * still running obsolete flush daemons, so we terminate them here. > * > * Use of bdflush() is deprecated and will be removed in a future > kernel. > * The `pdflush' kernel threads fully replace bdflush daemons and this > call. > */ > > I'd upgrade whatever package update comes from. I can't seem to find > that binary around on some of my systems, what distribution and version > are you running? Maybe it's time to upgrade. > > Someone else might know specifics :)
"update" is not a program, but a kernel daemon that was superseded by pdflush in 2.5 kernels. I just can't remember right know what caused that warning, but it's similar to the SO_BSDCOMPAT warning that is triggered when running bind.
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